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THE NAIL EDITION

At The Nail Edition, we believe that beautiful nails do not have to come at the expense of healthy nails.

Founded by two long time friends who frequent manicure salons, The Nail Edition was a creation out of a need, close to their hearts. Enable manicure lovers to enjoy beautiful nails - with peace of mind and style.

The manicure scene across the globe advanced rapidly over the past years enabling consumers to enjoy longer lasting polish and increasingly fancy nail designs: from stickers, to 2D nail painting, to 3D nail art embellished with Swarovski crystals. Nail treatments similarly got more luxurious, from paraffin wax to foot spa, and even nail masks for your individual nail.

While the number of nail care products and nail beauty brands proliferated to the delight of consumers, a very fundamental nail care regime is often an afterthought.

Across the world, it is a common practice during manicure or pedicure process for the same tool to be used on all the customers who walk into the salon. More and more salons ensure a routine to sterilise or sanitise the tools before they are being used by the next customer, however the risk of nail fungal or even more serious infections remain, if that procedure is not strictly adhered to.

The practice of sharing tools has been such a norm that few people question it, though we believe it remains a nagging thought in the minds of many salon patrons. And while more people become concerned, there are no good solutions in the market. Abundance of manicure sets exist, which are catered towards home use, often missing the cuticle nipper or containing tools for your other beauty needs at home. And these are normally small tools, which the professional nail technicians will not agree to use in the salon. Some forward looking salons started offering selected tools for sale which saw a take-up by the more hygiene conscious consumers. However in most cases, the set is incomplete and there is no proper storage that could help minimise damage to the tools.

We hunted for a solution everywhere, but couldn't find anything close. Hence we set off to create our own - A personal manicure set that is professionally preferred, with all the tools that you would least prefer to share, in a case that you would be proud to carry, that is thoughtfully designed to make your manicure and pedicure sessions a breeze while keeping your tools in the best conditions.

We set out to re-define THE "personal manicure kit". Not just personal, but a professional one.

With the support from Design Singapore, we worked with a group of Singapore and Italian designers from an innovative Singapore Design house - DESIGN INSIGHT to design a case for the tools that will meet the needs of both its users - the owners (in looking stylish and being mobile), and the nail technicians (in ease of use).